A very big thank you to our volunteers, Pauline Tise, Kathleen Boyle, Sara Tabbert, Chris Burrow, Alice Stickney, and the many new faces helping at the start line. The race would not have happened without them.

Note: Bud Marschner, dog sport photographer extraordinaire, has again made available photos of the event. He writes, “I’ve uploaded low resolution photos to my smug mug site; select the 2015 Creamer’s Skijoring gallerie. If anyone wants prints, they can order thru smug mug which are printed by Bay Photo. However, if you want the highest quality prints, let me know and I’ll upload a hi -resolution photo without a water mark. Or, let me know and I can print locally (I do have a very nice printer) 5×7 is $7, 8.5×11 is $15 and 13×19 is $35.”

Alaska Skijor and Pulk Association

Fun Race #1

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Creamer’s Field

Bib #

Skijorer

Dogs

Time

Place

3.6 mile, 2-dog

22

Aren Gunderson

Scoober, Hammer

11:53

1

21

Sunnifa Deehr

Dave, Sisu

12:44

2

26

Mike Ruckhaus

Snuff, Sash

13:22

3

25

Nina Ruckhaus

Piggy, Weasel

14:14

4

23

Kailyn Davis

Panda, Zeke

14:27

5

3.6 mile, 1-dog

16

Bruce Miller

Roy

15:22

1

17

Derek Frohbieter

Rocky

17:37

2

18

Shawna Henderson

Penny

17:42

3

20

Jesse Davis

Elsa

37:29

4

19

Pepper McFarland

Sage

38:00

5

2.8 mile, 3-dog

1

Sara Elzey

Kate, Daria, Sabrina

10:10

1

2.8 mile, 2-dog

15

Sunnifa Deehr

Moose, Clyde

9:46

1

12

Molly Yazwinski

Xina, Seoul

11:05

2

13

Kriya Dunlap

Zeus, Odin

11:44

3

11

Drew Harrington

Lisa, Zazu

12:02

4

24

Lisa Beattie

Rita, Nala

13:19

5

14

Scott Jerome

Boomer, Bjorn

19:05

6

1.4 mile, 3-dog

10

Sara Elzey

Faero, Dillon, Katrina

5:18

1

1.4 mile, 1-dog

5

Liz Kane

Black Bart

7:46

1

9

Pauline Tise

Puck

9:49

2

8

Christine Matson

Jasper

10:50

3

7

Brenna McConnell-Booher

?

11:46

4

6

Jeremy Paro

Elspeth

DNF

.4 mile, 1-dog

2

Sunnifa Deehr

Aksel

2:18

1

4

Pinky Herriges

Stinky

3:05

2

3

Pauline Tise

Max

4:11

3

Fun Race #2

By Sara Tabbert, Race Director

The big news from Fun Race 2 was the number of racers! We haven’t had this large a field of skijorers in a long time. There were lots of new faces, which is great to see. Temperatures were good for both humans and dogs. It was fun.

Racers covered distances from .5 to 5.7 miles. There were no stories of significant excitement, no moose encounters, and nobody got lost enough to report it. I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves in the results. Leni Stolz represented our junior racers nicely, and Pam Groves skijored with the team with the biggest size differential.

Thanks to race co-organizer Sunnifa Deehr, timers Alice Stickney and Kathleen Boyle, Pauline Tise who helped with registration, Lisa Stuby for “farmhousesitting,” and handlers Brandon McGrath-Bernhard, Drew Warf, and others who came to assist their racer and helped with others. As always many thanks to Pat DeRuyter and the grooming crew for providing us with such nice trails. And last but definitely not least, Bud Marschner for being so generous with his photography time.